For some student group leaders, Harvard just doesn’t get it.

It remains unclear whether Harvard has taken any major steps to prevent another incident like the Kirkland shooting—or if it is too nervous to talk about it at all.

Just four years ago, many members of the Harvard community anticipated the newly-developed January Term as an opportunity for undergraduates to participate in a range of creative and exciting programming on campus.

Evelynn M. Hammonds started her tenure as the Dean of Harvard College last year dealing with a massive power outage on the first day freshmen arrived on campus—the beginning of a string of difficult and unpredictable circumstances that would shape her first year as dean.

The majority of Hammonds’ appointments demonstrate a push toward diversity that reflects the increasing heterogeneity of the faculty.

The tone was somber at the Undergraduate Council’s final meeting of the fall semester.